Today's CFO: better educated, better paid, with more responsibility.

The average CFO is 41 years old with a master's degree. He (CFOs are still overwhelmingly male) earns $54,700 a year and has increasing responsibility over areas such as medical records, financial planning, internal audit, and reimbursement. The CFO is becoming increasingly interested in new business activities such as joint ventures and mergers, and is finding government regulations and reimbursement issues a less enjoyable aspect of the job.